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...progressed under a Prime Minister who has been alternately either one or the other of two statesmen who began as political opposites but have almost rolled themselves into a political one with the benign assistance of King George. Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald has steadily become more conservative, and Conservative Stanley Baldwin & Party have been fated to maintain or introduce the most radical legislation dished up in any Great Power outside the Soviet Union until President Roosevelt dished his New Deal. In England, while maintaining the Crown with all it implies, the income tax has been raised to confiscatory altitudes...
...impossible Dole demands of the Labor Party. On his own royal initiative George V arrived unexpectedly in London. Friends of the King in a position to know say that he bucked up Scot MacDonald when the Prime Minister offered to step down and persuaded Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin to enter and support the present "National Government" under Mr. Macdonald. This new government presented themselves as the only group able to keep Sterling on the gold standard and avoid the inflation into which another Labor Cabinet must rush by printing enough money to keep up their Dole pace...
...that this TV biopic sometimes makes you want to know. We meet Sellers as a young radio comic supported by a loyal wife (Emily Watson) and driven to want more by his lovingly pushy stage mum (Miriam Margolyes). After starmaking film work with directors Blake Edwards (John Lithgow) and Stanley Kubrick (Stanley Tucci), he sheds wife No. 1 and lands bombshell bride Britt Ekland (Charlize Theron...
...obviously phoning in their work. Sunset begins with two master thieves, Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and the luscious Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), completing the heist of a one-of-a-kind diamond and then jetting to a tropical island paradise to enjoy their retirement. Unbeknownst to them, FBI agent Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson), still simmering from his botched attempt to prevent their robbery, has tracked them down and means to nab them with a brilliant scheme.There are a few decent comic moments thanks mostly to Harrelson who seemingly takes on the daunting task of playing himself, and the occasional stunning...
...group has filed a lawsuit with the Massachusetts SJC asking the court to overturn its ruling, but Stanley admitted that suit would “probably not” succeed...